"This formless, colorless, and terrifying Sword Intent... it seems so familiar…" an Elder murmured.
"It's the Formless Sword Body! That child, Lin Xiao, possesses the Formless Sword Body!" Sect Leader True Master Ziyun exclaimed, visibly excited.
"Indeed, it's the Formless Sword Body! Heh, no wonder Junior Sister Hongling was so confident. It turns out her beloved disciple had such a trump card all along!" Chisong, the Chairman of Red Cloud Peak, had a complex expression, tinged with a hint of jealousy.
"Congratulations, Junior Sister Hongling! After today's battle, the prestige of your Divine Phoenix Peak's eldest disciple will surely spread throughout the entire Sect!" said True Master Yuanyi, his round, Maitreya Buddha-like face beaming.
At this moment, the other stunning female Chairman, Su Mei, looked somewhat puzzled.
"This Sword Attracting Heavenly Thunder technique... Junior Sister, did you comprehend it during your travels?" she couldn't help but ask.
"If I told you, Senior Sister Su, that this is a Sword Dao Divine Skill my genius disciple created himself, would you believe me?"
At this, Xiao Hongling lifted her exquisitely beautiful face, her three thousand strands of black hair dancing in the wind, her expression filled with pride.
"I believe you. Of course, I do," Su Mei managed a forced smile and refrained from asking further.
However, she was secretly mulling over something. There's something unusual about this! According to the script, Lin Xiao, though insightful from the beginning and opposing that young brute Ye Chen, was still an insignificant character. He had a miserable end in the original story. So, how come he now has such extraordinary Sword Dao aptitude and astonishes everyone present?
Could it be...someone is trying to alter the cause and effect by forcibly infusing him with power?
Thinking this, her long eyelashes fluttered. Her beautiful eyes glanced again at her Junior Sister Xiao Hongling beside her, who was clenching her little fists and excitedly cheering for her disciple, showing no trace of her Chairman's demeanor. Su Mei fell deep into thought.
Junior Sister, is it really you?
Why would you suddenly act in a way completely different from the future revealed in the script?
Could it be... you've also foreseen the future?
...
As the Eldest Senior Brother of Divine Phoenix Peak unleashed his magnificent Sword Attracting Heavenly Thunder technique, thunderous cheers erupted across the square, and the atmosphere once again soared to its zenith!
「On the stage.」
Facing the overwhelming, torrent-like Sword Qi intertwined with lightning, Ye Chen moved with swift footwork. He executed a martial artist's lightness skill, retreating as fast as lightning, but very soon...
He reached the edge of the stage; there was no escape left!
He had a very strong intuition!
If he were to take this terrifying Sword technique head-on today, his legend in this life would prematurely end on this small stage!
Even if the old man in the ring intervened, he probably couldn't save him!
Forget it! A gentleman does not stand beneath a collapsing wall! A true man knows when to yield and when to stand firm!
Lin Xiao, in the future, this Princely Heir will flay you, grind your bones, and cast your soul into the netherworld, never to reincarnate for eternity!
After weighing his options...
His eyes were bloodshot, his teeth tightly clenched...
The next moment, under the dumbfounded gazes of everyone present, including the Qinglan Sect Elders and Chairmen on the high platform...
THUMP!
This youth in black, who just moments ago had been arrogant and unyielding, unexpectedly sank to his knees before Lin Xiao, the Eldest Senior Brother of Divine Phoenix Peak!
"I... I surrender!"
"I am willing to honor my promise! I will apologize to your esteemed sect! I beg the Chairmen on the platform to save me!"
The moment these words were spoken, the entire venue fell into a shocked, dead silence!
This Princely Heir of Great Zhou's Prince Beichuan before them, an eighth-realm Martial Arts expert, was deathly pale. Kneeling on both knees, he looked like a beaten dog.
Where now was the imposing air of the young grandmaster who had just been challenging the entire arena?
At this moment, the person most aghast was Lin Xiao on the stage.
The activation of the Divine Sword Thunder Control Sword Technique by that lousy system was too abrupt!
He had been desperately trying to suppress his Sword Intent!
With great difficulty, he had almost reduced its might to thirty percent, and this protagonist actually...
Surrendered?
I, this villain, was just about to risk my life to continue the act, and you, you coward, actually surrendered!?
The Divine King Ye from "Emperor," who swept through all opposition, defeated all prodigies, and casually slaughtered his way through the Nine Heavens and Ten Realms to win a beauty's heart... This is all he amounts to?
At this moment, Lin Xiao was utterly speechless.
To think that ever since he transmigrated here, he had conscientiously played the villain for over a decade!
Towards his several innocent junior sisters, he had committed so many despicable acts against his conscience!
He had finally endured until this timeline where this idiotic protagonist was supposed to become a disciple!
It should have been a spectacular, show-off face-slapping plot, yet he, the protagonist, faced with him, a mere villainous minion...
Kneeled and surrendered?
In that instant, Lin Xiao dropped Cloud Dream Marsh.
He felt his blood pressure skyrocket, and his mind went completely blank!
He truly didn't know how this collapsing plot was supposed to continue...
WHOOSH—
Just then, a sinister, bone-chilling gust of baleful wind rushed straight towards him!
Lin Xiao slowly lifted his eyelids. He looked blankly and saw a spectral purple flame appear in the void, pouncing menacingly towards him!
Ha! It's Ye Chen's Nine Nether Purple Flame Marten!
In the original novel, after Ye Chen defeated Lin Xiao with a crushing advantage, he loudly proclaimed his victory to the entire audience. This beast then suddenly appeared and, relying on its master's power, stepped on Lin Xiao to humiliate him. And in doing so, it unintentionally snatched out the socks Lin Xiao had hidden in his robes!
The sudden appearance of this beast now means...
The plot can still be saved!?
Just as a stir passed through Lin Xiao's heart and he barely managed to recover his former fighting spirit...
CLANG!
An incomparably fierce sound of a sharp weapon tearing through the air resounded!
Under Lin Xiao's utterly stunned gaze...
A dense and unparalleled azure sword-gleam streaked across, drawing a magnificent, long azure rainbow in the sky!
PCHI!
A spray of foul monster beast blood splattered across the air!
That Purple Flame Marten Beast took the slash head-on. After a miserable cry, it plummeted heavily to the ground!
Its pair of bone wings had actually been brutally slashed into fragments!
The Azure Phoenix Lawful Sword... this is...
Lin Xiao thought of something. He turned his head and looked up at the high platform.
He saw the woman who had dazzled the entire Eastern Region Cultivation World sheathing her sword.
Furthermore, completely disregarding her status as a Chairman, she playfully winked her left eye at him!
My Master...
Why... are you also not playing by the script?
And you even gave me a wink? Do you find yourself very humorous?
Lin Xiao's Dao Heart completely crumbled.
Lousy system! Get lost!
The female leads have no professional ethics; they don't follow the script! Now even the male protagonist is this pathetic!
This plot... how do you expect me to make it coherent all by myself?!
This villain—I might as well quit!ŸŸŸ
Lin Xiao cursed inwardly.